ON THIS DAY
Born in 1858
422 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Theodore Roosevelt
jurist, ornithologist
- Max Planck
university teacher, physicist
- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
military officer, naturalist
- Giacomo Puccini
organist, politician
- Émile Durkheim
anthropologist, philosopher
- Emmeline Pankhurst
writer, politician
- Rudolf Diesel
engineer, Esperantist
- Gustaf V of Sweden
tennis player, monarch
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
physicist, naturalist
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy
businessperson, film editor
- Bonar Law
chess player, politician
- Alessandro Moreschi
opera singer, singer
- Selma Lagerlöf
Volksschule teacher, biographer
- Franz Boas
university teacher, linguist
- Omar al-Mukhtar
military leader, resistance fighter
- Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
patron of the arts, princess
- Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
aristocrat
- Maria Christina of Austria
politician
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
lexicographer, journalist
- Edith Nesbit
writer, children's writer
- Pandita Ramabai
autobiographer, writer
- Prince Henry of Battenberg
aristocrat, governor
- John L. Sullivan
boxer
- Keke Geladze
memoirist, seamster
- Charles de Foucauld
geographer, hermit
- Georg Simmel
philosopher, sociologist
- Prince Valdemar of Denmark
military personnel
- Harry Gordon Selfridge
entrepreneur, business magnate
- Eleonora Duse
screenwriter, stage actor
- Katharine Drexel
religious sister, nun
- Princess Louise of Belgium
aristocrat
- Anna J. Cooper
sociologist, suffragist
- Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia
writer, translator
- Kang Youwei
philosopher, writer
- Beatrice Webb
social reformer, writer
- Bipin Chandra Pal
head teacher, politician
- Dhondo Keshav Karve
social reformer, writer
- Carter Glass
politician
- Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
Africanist, scientific collector
- Ethel Smyth
conductor, suffragist
- Giuseppe Peano
mathematician, university teacher
- Mary Harrison McKee
politician
- Mihajlo Pupin
engineer, inventor
- Eugène Ysaÿe
violinist, conductor
- Adolph Ochs
journalist, publisher
- Wolfgang Kapp
beamter, jurist
- Charles Eastman
writer, folklorist
- Saitō Makoto
autobiographer, military personnel
- Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
diplomat, politician
- Gerard Philips
instrument maker, industrialist
- Henry Scott Tuke
artist, photographer
- Lovis Corinth
university teacher, printmaker
- Edward Mandell House
diplomat, politician
- May Robson
stage actor, film actor
- Kadambari Devi
artist
- Giovanni Segantini
painter, visual artist
- DeWolf Hopper
stage actor, radio personality
- Cipriano Castro
politician, military personnel
- Gaetano Mosca
philosopher, jurist
- Mélanie Bonis
composer
- Oliver Belmont
politician, socialite
- John Atkinson Hobson
politician, economist
- Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich
film actor, writer
- George Washington Goethals
military officer, engineer
- Horace Smith-Dorrien
soldier, governor
- Roland Bonaparte
botanist, geographer
- Charles Chesnutt
writer, novelist
- Catherine Radziwiłł
writer
- Bobby Leach
athlete
- Fernand Khnopff
lithographer, exlibrist
- Jan Toorop
visual artist, draftsperson
- Helen Churchill Candee
interior designer, explorer
- Mary Dimmick Harrison
politician
- Nicolas Notovitch
soldier, army scout
- Rosa Maltoni
teacher
- Arthur Achleitner
professor, editing staff
- Yi Wanyong
calligrapher, autobiographer
- Eugène Dubois
anatomist, geologist
- Wilhelm Fliess
physician, surgeon
- Mikimoto Kōkichi
politician, engineer
- Agnes Baden-Powell
scout, beekeeper
- Joséphin Peladan
art critic, playwright
- Eduard von Toll
paleontologist, naturalist
- José Miguel Gómez
military personnel, politician
- Samuel Untermyer
jurist, lawyer
- Christiaan Eijkman
bacteriologist, biochemist
- Lorrin A. Thurston
politician, journalist
- Maximilien Luce
painter, printmaker
- Elías García Martínez
painter
- Petar Bojović
general field marshal, military officer
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
actor, theatre critic
- William Stanley
inventor, businessperson
- Rachel Beer
editing staff, journalist
- William D. Boyce
entrepreneur, publisher
- Remy de Gourmont
philosopher, essayist
- Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
politician, poet
- Frank Keenan
film actor, film director
- Caran d'Ache
cartoonist, caricaturist
- Sultan Jahan I of Bhopal
politician, begum
- Hans Rott
composer, organist
- Alice Heine
aristocrat
- Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss of Gera
military officer
- George Albert Boulenger
botanist, herpetologist
- Howard Atwood Kelly
botanist, university teacher
- Carl Auer von Welsbach
physicist, chemist
- Jan Styka
painter, illustrator
- John Peter Russell
painter
- Alois Riegl
aesthetician, art historian
- Juan Vucetich
inventor, police officer
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
scientific collector, writer
- Michael Hainisch
farmer, writer
- Dan Brouthers
baseball player
- Maurice Prendergast
painter, draftsperson
- Yukio Ozaki
politician, journalist
- Josef Kainz
stage actor, director
- Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães
politician
- Harry Johnston
zoologist, official
- Gustaf Kossinna
Germanist, librarian
- Isaac Newton Lewis
inventor, engineer
- Edgeworth David
professor, geographer
- Stjepan Sarkotić
politician, Generaloberst
- Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
scientific collector, bryologist
- William Sowden Sims
author, military officer
- Carl Walther
entrepreneur, inventor
- John Joseph Montgomery
inventor, aircraft pilot
- Paul Dresser
songwriter, composer
- Sébastien Faure
encyclopedist, anarchist
- William Henry Pickering
astronomer
- John Burns
trade unionist, politician
- Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas
scientific collector, zoologist
- Vincas Kudirka
opinion journalist, translator
- Graham Wallas
sociologist, psychologist
- Emma Calvé
opera singer
- Heinrich Zille
graphic artist, exlibrist
- Albert Henry Munsell
inventor, painter
- Ludwig Quidde
medievalist, historian
- John Eugene Osborne
politician
- Joseph Thomson
explorer, botanist
- Guglielmo Oberdan
activist, politician
- Jenö Hubay
classical violinist, conductor
- Ellen Willmott
botanical collector, horticulturist
- Take Ionescu
writer, diplomat
- Heinrich Harder
artist, scientific illustrator
- Columba Marmion
Catholic theologian, Catholic priest
- Henry Watson Fowler
lexicographer, writer
- Sara Adler
actor, film actor
- Bernard Sachs
neurologist, physician
- Georgi Todorov
military officer, military personnel